```metadata
title: Feodrian Martial Arts
description: ''
tags: []
systems:
  - 5e
renderer: V3
theme: 5ePHB

```

## Feodrian Martial Arts

Your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armor or wielding a shield.

- You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons.
- You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.
- When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action. For example, if you take the Attack action and attack with a quarterstaff, you can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action, assuming you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn.
- Certain monasteries use specialized forms of the monk weapons. For example, you might use a club that is two lengths of wood connected by a short chain (called a nunchaku) or a sickle with a shorter, straighter blade (called a kama).

Additionally, you may select up to two martial, melee weapons which do not have the heavy or light properties and do not already have the finesse property. These weapon types become your Monk Specializations. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a weapon with a type matching your Monk Specializations.

- You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls when using Monk Specialization weapons.
- When you use the Attack action with only one Monk Specialization weapon, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action (note the improved unarmed strike aspect of this feature described above still requires the attack to be made without armor or shield when combined with this aspect of the feature). For example, if you choose **Trident** as one of your Monk Specialization weapons, you could take the Attack action and attack with a trident, then you can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action, assuming you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn.